The impact of a declining population, on individual countries and the world as a whole

But is that a such a clear and wise choice?
All the capital gains of your savings have to be earned by the same shrinking labour pool which also provides the tax base and all. Also winding down your investments means the same shrinking labour pool has to somehow provide whatever consumption you demand, so that you might get far less out of it than initially thought.
Even investing in countries with a better demography is iffy because
a) the reason they have better demographics usually mean, you don't really want to invest in those countries
b) every industrial country faces the same problem so everybody is looking for these same investment opportunities, rising prices and pummeling capital gains.

So for some people/countries saving and investing might provide a way to mitigated the population decline but I'm not sure it helps on the big scale.

Maybe the best bet is to spent all that money to build up infrastructure and better education, so your future population can be relatively more productive.

 

This was funny.

 

The American Economic Review publishes every few months. That's not a bad place to start.

 

Probably not the best thread, but it fits a little and I didn't want to post it in the random tweet thread.

We the people (in this case Denmark) are never satisfied even after we get what we ask for, shit maybe specially after we get what we ask for.


"New study: Denmark’s expanded paternity leave program narrowed gender gaps in earnings and made dad more confident about parenting skills … but also made dads (and moms!) less satisfied with leave, bc of a widespread preference that moms should much have more parental leave time than dads"

New study: Denmark’s expanded paternity leave program narrowed gender gaps in earnings and made dad more confident about parenting skills … but also made dads (and moms!) less satisfied with leave, bc of a widespread preference that moms should much have more parental leave time… pic.twitter.com/wMy8u61NZp

— Derek Thompson (@DKThomp) February 26, 2026